Archaeology breakthrough: How 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck discovery ‘redefined’ history Scuba researchers explored waters in Florida when they came across the shipwreck of a Roman vessel. The ship was called ‘Panarea III,’ and was expected to have sailed between Rome and Carthage about 218-210 AD during the Second Punic War. In 2010 US archeologists using sonar …

Thousands of ancestors’ remains, sacred objects to return home to North Dakota tribe In a storage room at the University of Tennessee’s anthropology department, the remains of almost 2,000 Arikara and Mandan people rest in boxes, alongside the sacred objects buried with them centuries ago. There, 65-year-old Pete Coffey, director of the Tribal Historic Preservation …

500 Million-Year-Old Human Footprint Fossil Baffles Scientists Hundreds of millions of years ago someone with shoes walked on an ancient trilobite. The amateur fossil hunter William J. Meister found a lifetime discovery 43 kilometers west of Delta, Utah, in the summer of 1968, he found a fossilized human footprint about the size of a US 13 shoe …

16,000-yr-old Ice Age Horse Found During Utah Family’s Backyard Renovation Laura and Bridger Hill dug their yard after embarking on a home building project But something surprising emerged into the soil when a portion of the earth was removed: a row of rib bones. That certainly wasn’t all, though. Following further investigation, the Hills realized …

Ghost fleet “hidden in plain sight”: Archaeologists are uncovering more than a dozen historic vessels from Nansemond River What’s underneath? This is the big question that a group of archaeologists is delving and digging in Suffolk. Suffolk history buff Kermit Hobbs stumbled over something that caught his attention from the Nansemond River two years ago. …

A Lowa teenager searching for Arrowheads finds a 30,000-year-old mastodon jawbone instead When hunting for arrowheads on an Iowa farm a teenager got a huge surprise. Instead of any arrowheads, the teen found a 30-inch jaw bone of a mastodon — a prehistoric hairy elephant, related to the mammoth.  According to WHO-TV, a paleontology unit …

Archaeological Sites Investigated in Northern Alaska Archaeologist Jeff Rasic of the National Park Service has investigated archaeological sites at Howard’s Pᴀss, a several miles–wide tundra plateau located in the mountains of northern Alaska’s Brooks Range. The sites date back some 11,000 years and include traces of houses, tent rings, food-storage pits, tool-making debris, and cairns …

Kansas Archaeologist Rediscovers Lost Native American City A conqueror named Juan de Oñate led an expedition of 200 soldiers in 1601 into uncharted territories of what is today the state of Kansas. Along with the soldiers and canons, the group was accompanied by a number of priests as well as adventurers who were attracted by …

A gigantic natural quartz crystal cluster was mined from the Colemans quartz mine near Jessieville On a Reddit site on Sunday, almost two years after it was found in the Arkansas mine, a picture of 3.5 million dollars chunk of quartz was taken. This mine was and is the most productive quartz mine in Arkansas. …